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Big Forest

2018

Big Forest

2018
6.8
Shin Dong-Yub used to be a top star, but he is not anymore. Jung Sang-Hoon is a single father and he works as a loan shark. Im Cheong-A is a Korean-Chinese single mother. They live in the Daerim Neighborhood of Seoul, South Korea and struggle to make a living.
Code 3

1957

Code 3

1957
5.3
Code 3 is an American crime drama that aired in syndication in 1957. The stories were all based on actual files of the Los Angeles sheriff's office.
The Moonstone

2016

The Moonstone

2016
5.4
Charismatic adventurer Franklin Blake is on the most important quest of his life - to solve the disappearance of the priceless Moonstone and win back Rachel Verinder, his one true love.
Jessica

2004

Jessica

2004
5.6
Set in the Australian outback at the turn of the twentieth century, this family based drama follows a young woman who is unjustly institutionalised.
Anna of the Five Towns

1985

Anna of the Five Towns

1985
Anna Tellwright lives in the Pottery District in Staffordshire with her young stepsister Agnes & father Ephraim, who is a wealthy man, but a miser. Anna attends the Methodist Church, but their strict rules & her father's thumb on everything she & Agnes do creates a longing for freedom. At 21, she inherits her grandmother's estate & is a now a wealthy young woman.
The Wingless Bird

1997

The Wingless Bird

1997
4.5
On the eve of World War I, Agnes Conway manages both the business and the problems of her troubled family. She finds the strength to break class barriers and help her sister Jessie marry a good boy from a family of dockside toughs. Is she strong enough to break them again when Charles Farrier, a gentleman, courts her over his parents' opposition? Agnes faces an added dilemma when she finds her heart divided between Charles and his soldier brother Reginald.
Midnight Man

2008

Midnight Man

2008
5.2
Disgraced journalist Max Raban is reduced to raking though bins for celebrity stories, a thankless task that suits him because of his phobia of daylight. His condition has already driven his wife and daughter away and he's desperate for a real story. When he uncovers the murder of two Iranian cousins, Max starts to suspect that there is a death squad at work, targeting pro-Islamists and backed by an organisation bent on waging perpetual war. Is Max an investigative journalist at last?
Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis

2006

Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis

2006
Fictionalized portrayal of the conflict and standoff in Kanehsatake during the summer of 1990. This major conflict between a Mohawk community and municipal, Quebec and Canadian governments was over the expansion of a golf course into an aboriginal cemetery. Based on the book by John Ciaccia (Quebec Liberal cabinet minister and negotiator) : The Oka Crisis, A Mirror of the Soul
Laura, an Extraordinary Life

2015

Laura, an Extraordinary Life

2015
2
On may 27, 1874, was born in Jericó, Antioquia (Colombia) a woman who would make history: Laura Montoya. In 2013 she was recognized as the first canonized saint in Colombia. This is the extraordinary story of her life.
Ossan's Love: In the Sky

2019

Ossan's Love: In the Sky

2019
6.8
Sōichi Haruta is 35 years old and single. He gets fired from his job. He begins to work as a cabin attendant for Tenkū Peach Airline. On the first day of his new job, he is late for a briefing meeting. Pilot Musashi Kurosawa tells him to not work their upcoming flight. Sōichi Haruta feels gloomy. He happens to see co-pilot Ryū Naruse having an argument with a woman. Suddenly, Ryū Naruse tells her "I like someone else" and then kisses Sōichi Haruta.
Dry Water

2020

Dry Water

2020
5.6
Bim Bam Bum

2013

Bim Bam Bum

2013
Bim Bam Bum is the most important revue show of Santiago’s bohemian life. Behind the power, glamor and sensuality, a young starlet ready for anything, reachs fame too fast and experiences its most brutal fall.
Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot

2001

Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot

2001
4.7
The stories of three women who married into America's royal family, and lived in the glory and the glare of the political spotlight.
A Tale of Two Cities

1980

A Tale of Two Cities

1980
5
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
I Am Syd Stone

2020

I Am Syd Stone

2020
2.7
While shooting a film in a small town, a famous actor puts his personal life and career in jeopardy by starting an intense affair with another man.
María Félix La Doña

2022

María Félix La Doña

2022
8.2
Bombshell

2005

Bombshell

2005
5.8
Jenna Marston (Zöe Lucker) is an ambitious and committed Army Captain who's nursing a big secret... she's having an affair with her boss, Major Nick Welling (Jeremy Sheffield). It's an affair that could cost them the careers they love, but their passion proves impossible to suppress. Back on the parade ground, equal opportunity law means that the British Army now has to open its doors to 'all sorts' and Nick and Jenna find themselves managing a rag tag of raw recruits. The task of turning social misfits into a crack fighting team, ready for deployment in war zones around the world, is one that takes determination and grit. Just as Bad Girls opened the doors into the closed world of a women's prison, Bombshell lifts the lid on the British Army - a hierarchical world where men and women are thrust together, living on the edge - trained and prepared to kill...
Grafters

1998

Grafters

1998
4
Two English brothers with different, clashing personalities become live-in home renovators for a notoriously finicky couple with strong opinions.
Agathe Koltès

2016

Agathe Koltès

2016
8
The Glass Virgin

1995

The Glass Virgin

1995
7.3
In 19th century England, wealthy young Annabella Lagrange lives a comfortable and secluded life on her family's country estate, where her parents own a glass works. As a child, she develops a special friendship with the charming stable boy Manuel Mendoza. When she turns 18, she marries her cousin Stephen and sees what the world is really like.